👃🏻
nose: light skin tone
Unicode: 1F443 1F3FB
Description
A human ear, typically depicted in a realistic flesh tone, with a light skin tone modifier. It shows the outer ear structure including the helix, concha, and lobe.
Group:
People & Body > body-parts
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral; primarily descriptive of a body part.
Backstory
The Ear emoji (👂) was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. The medium-light skin tone modifier (🏻) was added later to allow users to customize the emoji's appearance to better reflect various skin tones.
Usage Examples
- To indicate listening: 'I'm all ears! 👂🏻'
- Referring to hearing something: 'Did you hear that? 👂🏻'
- Discussing ear health or an ear appointment: 'My ear hurts 👂🏻'
- Requesting someone to listen: 'Listen closely 👂🏻'
Cultural Differences
General:
The ear emoji is largely universally understood as representing the auditory organ. The skin tone modifiers are used to represent a wider range of human diversity.